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From: yves@streamwave.com (Yves Dagenais)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: multiport serial card
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 22:11:54 GMT
Organization: Streamwave Communications Corp.
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On 22 Oct 96 08:23:58 GMT, cp@nick.nack.org (Colin Postel) wrote:
>I need an opinion or two. It says in the kernel config file
>( /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT FBSD-2.1.5-R ) that the driver
>for the DigiBoard is ALPHA QUALITY. I need a multi-port serial
>card to put into a system I'm building ( ASUS MB, probably
>P100, SCSI, couple Fireballs, several modems). This is for a
>business application, so obviously it's gotta be rock-solid 
>reliable. Also, what for the SCSI? This system isn't gonna do
>a whole lot of disk access. And I'm thinking ZyXEL for the
>modems. Any advice offered will be greatly appreciated.

How many ports do you need?

Yves